I use putty as a terminal to connect my remote server through ssh.
Vi is my favorite text editor in it.
How to display line numbers along the left side of the editor?
Enter following command while using vi text editor
:set nu
It will looks like as below:
To turn off the display of line number, try
:set nu!
But most of time, I would like to set it up and keep line number display as default
How to do it?
vi ~/.vimrc
Add following line
set number
Save and close the file.